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    Attributing self-organization to consciousness smuggles i... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Consciousness is an autopoietic system — a self-creating and self-organizing system.

    Attributing self-organization to consciousness smuggles in a Cartesian subject that deflationary accounts of personal identity have already undermined.

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    • 1.Deflationary accounts dissolve the unified subject into bundles of processes lacking centralized control or direction.
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    • 2.Self-organization requires an organizing principle that appears to presuppose the very unified agent deflationism denies.
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    • 3.Attributing self-organization to consciousness risks reintroducing a Cartesian subject by the back door through functional necessity.
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    • 1.Self-organization is a physical process observable in non-conscious systems (crystals, ecosystems) requiring no Cartesian subject.
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    • 2.Consciousness could participate in self-organization without constituting a Cartesian subject—merely as one causal factor among many.
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    • 3.Deflationary accounts need not deny that persons exhibit organized behavior; they only deny a metaphysically substantial unified soul.
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